Re: Finding the right place to start ...

2007-11-23 Thread Mike Klaas
On 23-Nov-07, at 5:24 PM, Mike Klaas wrote: On 23-Nov-07, at 5:17 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: : The best way to help is to try out the patch, make sure it applies, see if the : functionality is working, and review the code changes. Review is usually the : biggest bottleneck in open-sour

Re: Finding the right place to start ...

2007-11-23 Thread Mike Klaas
On 23-Nov-07, at 5:17 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote: : The best way to help is to try out the patch, make sure it applies, see if the : functionality is working, and review the code changes. Review is usually the : biggest bottleneck in open-source development. this thread reminded me of so

Re: Finding the right place to start ...

2007-11-23 Thread Chris Hostetter
: The best way to help is to try out the patch, make sure it applies, see if the : functionality is working, and review the code changes. Review is usually the : biggest bottleneck in open-source development. this thread reminded me of some stuff i've in the back of my mind about "contributing"

Re: Finding the right place to start ...

2007-11-21 Thread Mike Klaas
On 20-Nov-07, at 8:51 PM, Tracy Flynn wrote: I'm trying to find the right place to start in this community. I recently posted a question in the thread on SOLR-236. In that posting I mentioned that I was hoping to persuade my management to move from a FAST installation to a SOLR-based one.